Pan-African Parliament challenges gov’ts over broken health funding pledge

The Pan-African Parliament has challenged African governments to honour their long-standing commitment to increase domestic financing for health, warning that weak funding continues to expose the continent to public health threats.

Chairman of the Pan-African Parliament’s Committee on Health, Labour and Social Affairs, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, said governments must take urgent steps to strengthen health financing and preparedness.

They called on AU member states to domesticate Africa CDC continental frameworks into national laws, particularly those covering biosafety and biosecurity, public health institutions, emergency preparedness, data governance, local manufacturing of health products and cross-border health cooperation.